Summary

This new edition is an authoritative and provides a balanced account of the history of art. It presents art history as an essential part of the development of humankind, encompassing the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas-spanning from the primitive art of hunters 30,000 years ago to the most controversial art forms of today.

Table of Contents

Preface

viii

Introduction

2

(1)

Art as Craft

2

(7)

Systems of Building

3

(1)

Sculptural Techniques and Materials

3

(2)

Painting Techniques and Materials

5

(2)

Print-making

7

(2)

Photography

9

(1)

Pictorial Representation

9

(4)

Perspective

9

(2)

Color

11

(2)

Style and Individual Expression

13

(1)

Context: Function and Meaning

14

(4)

The Power of Images

16

(2)

Women Artists

18

(2)

The History of Art

20

(4)

PART ONE Foundations of Art

Before History

24

(16)

Timechart

24

(1)

The Art of the Hunters

25

(2)

Map Prehistoric Europe and West Asia

26

(1)

Cave Art

27

(6)

Mesolithic Art

33

(1)

The Art of Farmers

33

(4)

In Context Catal Huyuk: A Neolithic Town

34

(3)

Neolithic Architecture

37

(1)

Stonehenge

38

(2)

The Early Civilizations

40

(40)

Timechart

40

(1)

Mesopotamia

41

(1)

Sumer

41

(4)

Map Ancient West Asia

43

(2)

Akkadian Art

45

(1)

Ziggurats

46

(2)

Sources and documents Gudea's Dream

47

(1)

Babylon

48

(1)

The Indus Valley

49

(3)

Ancient Egypt

52

(1)

Predynastic

52

(2)

Map Ancient Egypt

53

(1)

Early Dynastic

54

(1)

Old Kingdom Architecture

55

(4)

Sources and Documents Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts

58

(1)

Old Kingdom Sculpture and Painting

59

(4)

Middle Kingdom

63

(2)

The Aegean

65

(1)

Map The Ancient Aegean

65

(1)

Minoan Crete

66

(5)

Mycenae and the Mainland

71

(4)

In Context The Homeric World

74

(1)

China

75

(1)

Shang Dynasty

75

(5)

Map Ancient China

76

(4)

Developments Across the Continents

80

(36)

The Hittites

80

(2)

Timechart

80

(2)

The Discovery of Iron

82

(1)

Map Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia

83

(1)

The New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt

83

(5)

Sources and Documents Thutmosis Instructs his Vizier

85

(1)

In Context Hatshepsut: Women in Ancient Egypt

86

(2)

New Kingdom Architecture

88

(2)

Akhenaten

90

(3)

Ramesside Art

93

(2)

Assyria and Babylon

95

(3)

Narrative Relief

98

(2)

Babylon

100

(2)

Iran

102

(1)

Achaemenid Art

102

(2)

Persepolis

104

(2)

Zhou China

106

(3)

The Americas

109

(1)

Map Ancient Mesoamerica

109

(1)

The Olmecs

110

(1)

Peru

111

(4)

Map Ancient Peru

112

(1)

In Context Chavin de Huantar: Religion and Society, in Ancient Peru

113

(2)

Africa: Nok Culture

115

(1)

The Greeks and Their Neighbours

116

(49)

Timechart

116

(1)

Archaic Greece

117

(4)

Map Ancient Greece

118

(3)

The Male Nude

121

(4)

The Polis

125

(1)

The Classical Period

126

(1)

The Parthenon

126

(12)

Sources and Documents Pausanias on the Parthenon

128

(6)

In Context The Delphi Charioteer: Ancient Greek Religion and Athletics

134

(4)

Naturalism and Idealization

138

(5)

Concepts The Ideal: Idealism, Proportion and the `Canon'

139

(4)

Vase Painting

143

(2)

Stelae

145

(1)

The Late Classical Period

146

(3)

Barbarian Alternatives: Scythians and the Animal Style

149

(5)

Urban Development Organic Growth and Urban Planning from Jericho to Athens

150

(4)

Hallstatt and La Tene

154

(2)

Iberia and Sardinia

156

(1)

The Etruscans

157

(8)

Sources and Documents Pliny on Etruscan Sculpture

161

(4)

Hellenistic and Roman Art

165

(51)

Timechart

165

(2)

Map Etruscan and Roman Italy

167

(1)

The Hellenistic Period

167

(2)

Plato, Aristotle and the Arts

169

(4)

Allegory

173

(2)

Hellenistic Architecture

175

(3)

Hellenistic and Roman Painting and Mosaics

178

(7)

In Context Roman Luxury: Silver and Cameo Glass

179

(4)

Sources and Documents Vitruvius on Roman Painting

183

(2)

Roman Architecture

185

(1)

Domestic Architecture

186

(1)

Temples and Public Works

187

(4)

Urban Development The Roman City: From the Republic to the Late Empire

188

(3)

The Colosseum and the Invention of Concrete

191

(2)

The Pantheon

193

(2)

Roman Sculpture

195

(1)

Towards a Definition of Roman Art

196

(11)

In Context Family Piety: The Roman Portrait Bust

200

(7)

Late Antique Art

207

(9)

PART TWO Art and the World Religions

Buddhism, Hinduism and the Arts of South and East Asia

216

(72)

Timechart

216

(3)

Buddhist Art in India

219

(5)

Map India

219

(3)

In Context The Life of the Buddha: Scriptures and Images

222

(2)

The Image of Buddha

224

(6)

Hindu Art in India

230

(14)

Concepts The Divine: From Apollo to Vishnu

233

(4)

In Context Ellora: An Architect-Sculptor's Summit

237

(1)

Sources and Documents Konarak Temple Building Accounts

238

(6)

Buddhist and Hindu Art in Sri Lanka and Java

244

(5)

Map South-East Asia

244

(5)

Buddhist and Hindu Art on the South-East Asian Mainland

249

(6)

Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist Art in China

255

(1)

Han Dynasty

255

(10)

In Context Confucius: Han Relief Carving

258

(7)

Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties

265

(3)

Song Dynasty

268

(4)

Landscape Painting

272

(5)

Shinto and Buddhist Art in Japan

277

(5)

Sources and Documents The Nihongi on the First Buddhist Images in Japan

279

(3)

The Heian, Fujiwara and Kamakura Periods (794--1333)

282

(6)

Sources and Documents Lady Murasaki on Calligraphy

285

(3)

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

288

(45)

Timechart

288

(1)

The Beginnings of Christian Art

289

(5)

In Context The Catacombs: Early Christian Art

292

(2)

From Domus Ecclesiae to the Christian Basilica

294

(3)

The Image of Christ

297

(6)

Sources and Documents Agnellus on S Apollinare Nuovo

300

(3)

Ravenna

303

(3)

Byzantine Art

306

(1)

Ecclesiastical Architecture

306

(1)

Map The Byzantine World

307

(1)

Hagia Sophia

307

(6)

Urban Development Constantinople: The Creation of a Christian Imperial Capital City